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That's exactly right! :)

Hahaha, that's how it goes sometimes. Join the discord if you can't find someone to play with lots of players around the world on there!

Thanks!

Hi there! About 70% of the art in the print and play is final. The rest is still being worked on. All the art that is showing in the campaign itself will be finalized, but it'll take us a few more months to finish everything.

Same! 🎉 Can't WAIT!

It's a complex art form! Keep at it, you'll get there

Thanks so much! I hope you can give it a try

There's a lot of us!

Thanks so much!

Thanks!

Thanks so much, and good luck on your own journey!

Alpha Centauri was a huge inspiration, for sure!

Thank you!

We have worked with over 30 artists on the art- many of the pieces are licensed personal pieces, not commissioned by us. You may see a few AI pieces in this video for cards we haven't completed yet.

Thanks!

Hey! Netrunner and Magic are the ones I am most intimately familiar with and the only ones I could knowledgably comment on, but I was definitely influenced by a variety of card games- Star Wars, Legend of the Five Rings, Vampire: The Masquerade (Jyhad), Pokemon, WARS, etc. Curious to know which games you see parallels with!

Thank you!

Thank you!

Thanks for taking the time to comment, join the discord to continue giving feedback! You can find an invite on our website. Most people find the factions to be quite distinct. Each one has 30 unique cards, plus a faction leader power. We do have deckbuilding rules if that is something people wish to do. We have balanced all the decks against each other and can't guarantee that there are no infinite loops or other issue if decks are customized (although so far we haven't found any). Though you may be surprised at just how much variety a 30 card deck (plus echoes) will give you. During a game it is rare to draw through more than 1/3rd of the deck, and that paired with the different interactions between factions provides a huge amount of variety and replayability.

@@damonstea I can't speak on behalf of other people, and I hope my opinion doesn't assume that! I support everyone that is content with the state of Wormwood and that will buy the game once it hits the (internet) shelves! I hope that sharing my vision of the game might help you and other people build upon the great system that you are developing. I believe in the project, otherwise I wouldn't be rambling about it! I'll also add that I have little experience in the design of card or boardgames, and even less experience with the actual development. 1. My concerns around flavor remains untouched. For example, unless someone was interested in the lore of the game, it would be hard to understand why SHOCK TROOPS, INQUISITORS and GRAFTGUARD, or BETRAYAL, DEFECTION and CONSCRIPTION are unique to that factions identity. How are MANDATORY STIMS different from the BATTLE STIMS? How do the GENEFORGE NURSES compare to another faction's GENEFORGE? SENTINELS and HELLCATS? TALENT HACK and MINDJACK? DUSTMEN and CRUSTCRACKER GANG? In other games, every card has a reason to be inside its faction, combining mechanics, colors and flavor. For example, in magic, CONDEMN is a removal card that puts target creature on the bottom of a deck and makes its controller gain life. It's a card that behaves like a white card (lifegain is usually associated to white) and the image uses white as it's main color to describe the effect the spell is having on the creature. Everybody can tell that card is white, and every body understands what white is about. Another example, coming from Netrunner, would be the card "Snare!". In this case, the color doesn't match the identity of the faction, but the flavor is so obviously Jinteki-like that nobody would assume it came from any other faction. Trapping the opponent and dealing net damage is this faction's bread and butter, and its elegant design is a signpost for what Jinteki wants to achieve as a whole. Wormwood's factions feel too samey because they share many themes, units, words and lore. 2. 10 factions is a whole lot, and trying every combination multiple times (even with more then 2 players) will take dozens of games, if not hundreds. However, players of Magic, Yugioh, Netrunner, and Pokemon are drawn not only to their enjoyable gameplay but also to their scalability. Every 3 months a new Magic expansion comes out, with 230+ new cards (not including alternate art styles and foils). Netrunner used to release 60-card packs every once in a while (usually 6 in a year) and a full box containing new cards for one runner and one corp faction every year. People spend countless hours theorycrafting new decks even before they are released because they enhance the already pre-existing experience the system created by allowing you to tinker and experiment. Wormwood isn't designed around that, and that could hurt the game's future. I'll be sure to join discord and keep looking forward to the full release!

Thanks, I recently bought a new recorder which plays much nicer with my mic. The next one will be better

Thank you!

The only advantage is information- you know what the player has coming and can prepare for it. There are actually a couple cards that reduce a forge card's progress when it breaches, but it isn't a standard mechanic.

Learning rules is hard!

This is much requested, but it isn't something we have cracked yet. I won't put out a subpar solo mode just to have it, so for now there are no plans to release one. It's still something I have on my mind. At the very least we hope to create an app in the future and that will allow for solo campaigns!

It's a mix of the follows and the email list that we are looking at. The number that most marketers and successful kickstarter creators has suggested to us is 7000- that high because unfortunately you can only count on 5-10% of them actually backing. We are getting there. It'll be soon!

@@damonstea Yeah, it seems like the follower count on kickstarter is growing exponentially, and I can imagine the email list is doing the same. Can't wait!

Thank you so much! It definitely is a fun-first design. I'm sure people will find a way to play competitively, but kitchen table play is what it's made for.

Oh yeah, it sort of is!

It can get very political! Once a group has played a few times you see a group culture emerge. Thanks for taking a look!

I would love to make an app if I can get the money to program it! Hopefully in the future

Thanks for checking it out!

Thank you!

Not thus far, but I've thought about it. Perhaps in future expansions!

His mic setup is fine, what he need is simple compressor/limiter on audio channel 😁

Thanks for the feedback, and sorry about that. We are working on getting a new audio interface

​@@damonsteaNo need to apologize : I could clearly follow and hear you and this was very informative :-)

The base game will have cardboard tokens, but we will have acrylic tokens as an addon for those who want it! We have been limited in our material choices since they need to print with a different color on each side!

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​@@damonsteaDOA. You got 5 games to fight. Sorcery, Flesh & Blood, Myrtle, 6 arms, Alpha clash, Lorecona, Shadowverse, .

@@TempoLOOKING Not looking to replace any of those. This is a non-collectible game that is optimized for 3-4 players as well as kitchen table play, not 2 player tournaments. But you do you!

Hey there, I'm sorry you feel that way! There's definitely luck involved, (just like with any card game), but it's like Magic in that it takes some time to see the strategies and synergies in each deck. To you concern about echoes, I would suggest forging as many as possible. New players are often afraid of forging echoes, but it's the best way to give you more choices in your hand and ensure that if someone hits your hand, it isn't completely full of echoes they will steal! Echoes are valuable in the lore, definitely, but they are not a scarce resource. You could think of it more as an arms race. To your concern about negotiation- I agree we haven't posted a play through so far that shows the potential of this aspect of the game. We often trade powers between ourselves to take down runaway leaders, and it's a fun aspect of the game once you've played a bunch and get used to the flow of the game. Even if Wormwood doesn't turn out to be your taste, I appreciate you taking a look! And I'm hoping to write a TTRPG in the future, perhaps that way you can enjoy the world in a different format.

@@damonstea 2 things: 1) "New players are often afraid of forging echoes" That's the thing - None of us had any reservations about not forging echoes. But the issue is that there is no option to NOT play them. Through the 3 games that we did we just got into a rhythm of nobody being able to impact the other person in any way. You score your echoes, the opponent says "cool" & then scores out his own echoes because nobody has anything. Then somebody has a unit & everybody thinks "cool I guess" and proceeds to not be able to do anything about it. We were all trying to find something that started the interaction but we just kept finding more echoes that we needed to throw out. And then the game ends because you just tried to get to the cards that do something... At the end, we all felt like there were no meaningful decisions made, you just play out the game & it happens. 2) Every card is cool, interesting & has a lot of happening in the art. And that's the end of that sentence. I had countless moments with my playmates of all of us just looking at a card or showing it, it's mechanics & thinking "oh that's interesting". But it is self-contained & didn't feel like it had anything else going for it except itself. We all agreed to describe the game as "Lots of cool mechanics without interaction"

@@linase.8566 That's a shame, most players have found it highly interactive. Thanks anyway for checking it out!

@@damonstea I will still be sticking around. Who knows, maybe I'll see what element I missed or overlooked in the next playthroughs which would change my mind. I also want to ask: what do the other players mention when they say 'high interaction'? Or alternatively, where could I read those thoughts?

@@linase.8566 Perhaps jump on our discord, there is a pretty active userbase there. You can find the invite on our website.

Thank you, hope you enjoy! And join the discord if you are looking for someone to play the game with

@@damonstea just joined it, thanks! Had a little dabble at the game with a friend and almost instantly had that feeling of.. "oh.. oh I like this!" Reminiscent of how I felt the first time I played Netrunner! 🙌🏼 Looking forward to the kickstarter opening up! 👀🎉

I would not be averse to them becoming the game mascot

Thank you! One of the most interesting playtests we ever had was with someone who we found out was a pastor after playing. Religion is one of the most universal and human experiences, and because this is a game about people it's a big part of the world of Wormwood.

I'm not sure if BGA will accept an unpublished game, but I'll look into it!

@@damonstea Even if just two factions were available, the rules enforcement would make it a lot easier to learn and there would be tons of useful data for balancing with future expansions. That said, I know BGA implementation is a lot more difficult than TTS :)

Thank you! I'll check it out

Thank you!

Thanks so much!

​@@damonstea So, my 6-year old and I printed some of the cards and gave it a go last night :). It was a great time and both of us really enjoyed diving in this universe. I'd like to point one card though that struck as a bit out of sync with the rest. This was the 'Planet Plague'... Although the image is striking and evocative, it feels like it leans too much in the gore/horror, which no other card has. I know this is very much personal and maybe subjective, but I would replace that picture. Again though, no other comment on any of the other cards. Love it!

Thanks! I enjoy talking about it. More to come.

Hi there! We have worked with 32 artists so far, (including amazing artists like Benedick Bana, Leon Tukker, and Dofresh) and we are still licensing and commissioning work. Much of the art we licensed we found long before AI art was even a thing, but some of the art was preconceived using AI and then painted over. It's been an amazing brainstorming tool for us and allowed us to give artists specific direction without micromanaging their work. If you want to know more about how it was used and how we have worked with artists I would encourage you to join our Discord, where we have discussed this issue before! (link on our website, check in the video details)

Weirdly, I played Netrunner AFTER starting the design of Wormwood. But once I discovered Netrunner it certainly helped me smooth out some rough edges. Definitely the jargon in Netrunner increased the barrier to entry, and I've found that it's a lot easier for players unfamiliar with card gaming to get into Wormwood.

This is something being seriously considered! :)